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4.
Dr. Young felt that clearly the Chinese were up
to something; they were canvassing a wide range of
influential opinion in Hong Kong, as he saw it with a view
to putting pressure on Mrs. Thatcher over sovereignty.
He did not think that this visit and others in the pipeline
were timed in connection with the forthcoming NPC meeting.
5.
Dr. Young intends to go to the Peking University
and hopes to deliver a paper there, though he recognised
that this would no doubt be pre-censored.
He is in
occasional correspondence with Professor Zhao Baoxu who
gave a lecture on 'Political Science in China' at the Hong
Kong University in January. Dr. Young said a propos of
that lecuture that the Professor's speech had clearly been
checked out by the Chinese beforehand.
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6.
Dr. Young seems quite a shrewd observer of
Chinese politics, while he is yet rather naive about his
own constitutional ideas and their workability. He now
appears to believe the Chinese could permit the status quo
to continue if the British would recognise Chinese
sovereignty à la Portugal and Macau. He has just submitted
to the Governor and to the NCNA, but not to London, а
draft constitutionfor Hong Kong which he believes would
reconcile all the conflicting interests. Designed broadly
to maintain the present socio-economic system, it envisages
a bi-cameral municipal council, with the lower body elected;
the upper would include the China-Hong Kong office and
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